Well, I have a somewhat unfortunate update to post; my classes for this semester just wrapped-up within the past couple of weeks, and unfortunately, I failed my anesthesiology simulation lab final (I.e., like a "dress rehearsal" of running through the simulated anesthesia care of a patient during a surgery). I passed all my other classes. The program I'm attending allows students to remediate no more than 2 courses, and if I don't successfully remediate the lab final, I will have an F on my transcript. So in other words, even if I leave the program after this semester and apply to pharmacy school instead, it is still in my best interest to pass the remediation attempt. There are several more lab classes I will have to take over the next few semesters if I choose to stay in the program, and the simulation finals for those courses all become progressively more challenging, so there is a real danger of failing and having to remediate additional courses. The problem with that, however, is that students can only remediate a maximum of 2 courses, so if I fail the lab course next semester and remediate it, I won't have anymore remediation attempts to use if I fail any of the proceeding lab courses (which become progressively more challenging, as I alluded to earlier). If I fail out after the spring or summer semesters, I'll be over $100k in debt and without a high-paying career to help pay it off.
So now the big question is, will pharmacy schools still be willing to interview/accept me if they see that I have remediated a course? Apparently, if I pass the remediation, the grade on my transcript will be something like C' or C(E) or a similar "variant" of C, so I'm not sure how pharmacy schools will react to that....
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Getting accepted to pharmacy school after being dismissed from another health professions program?
